PROBLEM:

Most major recruiting conventions aren't for regular, workaday recruiters like US.

I've been to a few major recruiting conventions (and was even a panelist at one), but not many. Most of the people there seemed to be mainly senior corporate, staffing and recruiting professionals, aka, THE PEOPLE WHO…

PROBLEM:

There are a number of recruiters and former recruiters out there who can properly be called "Recruiting Subject Matter Experts". However, when someone calls her/himself a "Recruiting Thought Leader" (DEFINITION: “Someone who neither recruits, thinks, nor leads”) and

1) Isn't a recruiter/hasn't been one for a very long time, if ever.

2) Doesn't routinely talk/interact with ordinary, day-to-day…

Using Corporate Emails to Recruit Produces Results

Recruiting with corporate emails produces results!

I know because I exploit this technique.

Using corporate emails as a way to connect and recruit passive candidates allows the recruiter to create awareness regarding potential opportunities to these highly desired professionals. It presents opportunities directly to the passive candidate talent…

 Listen up, 'Cruitaz! It's HARD for me to write who blogs/articles, but not hard to fire off a short opinion, thought, factoid, rant,etc., so this is what I'm going to do, and you can agree, disagree or even better- DO SOME OF YOUR OWN, HOMES! Funward...

Michael Sam as a player for the University of Missouri. Credit: Marcus Qwertyus 

There was a lot of news this past weekend about Michael Sam, as he became the first openly gay…

After cutbacks by some of the biggest companies in the financial sector, there were concerns that the value of an MBA degree was declining. As a way to save money, employers have been hiring undergrads, who are willing to work for less money, rather than hire business school grads. This may be impacting the number of candidates with an MBA. However, others think the…

I'm preparing for a talk at the JobG8 Job Board Summit (June 26-27, Orlando), and it has me thinking a lot about …

Do you X-ray?

No? What’s X-ray? Have I lost you already? Okay then, let me start at the beginning..…

When we search the internet for information, most of us open up a search engine in our browser – in fact, most of us open up the world’s No.1 search engine – Google. If we don’t use Google, then we are likely to open up the world’s No.2 search engine…

Two very interesting and relevant US court cases were settled in the past three weeks involving anti-competitive behavior, namely no-headhunting agreements between large and high profile publicly listed companies. 

In the most high profile case, four massive tech firms (Google, Apple, Adobe and Intel) who were the defendants in a class action suit, agreed to a…

If you are serious about building your business, you should be on Twitter. The benefits for all professionals looking to build brand, enhance their profile, and create relationships are exceptional.

But if you are currently dabbling with…

Mark has a good blog. I liked it because he is very honest about the ups and downs of his career.

However, on the show I wasn't really able to dig into how Mark wrestles with problems and here's why. It seems to me that after 18 years in the…

When people hear I've worked in social media, I typically get a lot of questions - how should I promote my Facebook page? How many Twitter followers is good? Can you show me how to...(fill in the blank with some minor adjustment Mashable suggested).

Frequently, blogging comes up. It's a hot topic right now. Everyone is convinced they should be blogging by the articles…

While going global would be a prudent measure for many reading this, learning from global patterns is the next best thing. Trends don’t last and, as a result, are not reliable indicators of actual market conditions and emerging opportunities. Patterns, on the other hand, are virtually infallible barometers as they demonstrate the momentum of where things will continue to…

I know far too many company leaders that avoid time off or other perks that they believe will put a dent in production, with no real evidence that that will in fact happen. With attraction and retention on the top of most employer’s to-do lists, it’s the perfect time to create your…

This is the 5th in the series on lesser known sites to source from.  As you saw in the first one we used x-raying to source, well guess what we are again and guess what it still works and it works for free. …

I went to the Tri-State Society for Human Resources Management Conference last week. And the number one topic?

Human resources, as a department, wants a “seat at the table.” In other words, they want the same voice that marketing, finance, operations, etc gets at a company.

So how will they get it? It is all about one thing: revenue. Or, more accurately, tracking and then taking credit for revenue that human…

The hospitality industry is growing. That’s the good news. Now for the bad news: employee turnover continues to be a problem within the industry. According to a Deloitte Hospitality report, the average…

It’s nice to have values that you could put on a billboard –the ones that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. However, are they the values that are going to help you hit your numbers this quarter, attract talent and keep your existing talent? The right set of values should be that beautiful combination of awesome brand meets performance machine.

This is easy to…

Engagement and retention are huge topics right now in HR, and leadership in general. High turnover numbers and epidemically low employee engagement numbers are costing companies in a big way. For a while, employers were running their organization’s engagement and retention efforts based on some ideas that we now know…

If you use LinkedIn groups to source candidates or post job listings, this is for you.

These are the top groups where job seekers and recruiters are hanging out.

The smallest group has over 30K members while the top group has over one million:

LinkedIn Groups Top 100 for Job Seekers and Recruiters in 2014

But LinkedIn is a…